Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems · Christina Georgina Rossetti

Chapter 88: The Bourne

Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hoursBy the shadows as they pass.

Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earthSeemed too narrow to contain.